Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-20

most other women in the mass, that when
they come together their first idea is work
and still more work. They may some lime
appreciate the philosophy of il good time
pure and simple, but meantime the gospel
of effort is not a bad one to master.
'My souvenir of the coal strike" said
the mistress of q cOzy little Hat, as she
noted q glance of curiosity toward the
sti!etto that after the fashion of such OF
fensiye weapons nowadays was thrust
peacefully through the coils OF her aalr.
i'Ycs. it is set with black diamonds,
genuine ones, " she went on, rs she drop
ned the bauble toward which my eyes still
wandered into my Outstretched hand. 1T
was NV favor at the german II night last
week. 1t looked then as if we were never
likely to see coal in any larger Jumps, and
so the lady of the house gave us everyone
a coal Jewel, scarf pin for the men, breast
pin, rings and hair ornaments for the wo-
men. Mine, you see, is quite a coal chip
II was IA coal chip indeed, broken roughly
from u lump of anthracite and set with the
care that is usually bestowed on diamonds
of a different color. Not beautiful de-
cidedly, but quite the reverse. Its owner
will keep the cOal-studded StilettO as a
momentO of an experience through which
the oftener New York passes the worst for
the city.
The earliest bOnnets that the French
milliners are beginning to send US rs
samples of what we are TO expect the COM
ing season afford little encouragement to
the woman who would fain select her head
gear with any reference TO the genuine
protection it might and ought to afford.
Horseshoe, pointed and gabled crowns, are
still 10 prevail, and the bonnet bids fair to
continue the miniature toy head-dreSs That
IL has been for two seasons back. 1t Is oil
no use TO rebel. Madam returns your look
of indignant inquiry with one OF serene
eompOsure rs she informs you that shapes
any wider of crown than your two hands
mt together in the form OF q shed roof
''are not worm" and Madame Is right, rs
usual. They not only are not worn, they
are not in the market at any price. The
folly of fashion which builds the crOwn
and piles the face trimmings up into the
air, while absolutely refusing to protect
the head, is likely to be carried TO an even
more inartistic extreme the coming spring
than in the past.
Last week while Rose COghlan was play
ING at the Union Square Theatre l passed
a group of people collected about her like
ness i'm the window OF q Broadway photo
rrapher. She was taken rs Peg Wellington,
and in the garb of the Irish orange girl
turned star actress, was q charming crea-
ture TO look upon; so much so that the knot
of cazerS absorbed i'll the contemplation OF
the counterfeit failed to notice the original,
For Rose, it was Rose herself, with the
swinging, vigorous step that Is the secret
of so much of her popular sunshine and
had stopped on the outside OF the group
her own pictHre had called together. No
body recognized her, nobody looked ut her.
She watched tue interested gathering a
minute and then passed ON. If all eyes
had been turned the other way, full ON her
face, she might have attracted as little no
tice. 1t is seldom, after all, that we know
by daylight the people who amuse us
under the gaslight. The most popular
first violin in the city orchestra was my
yis-a-vis on the horse car this morning, and
not n glance was cast towards him.
She. quietly TO her next neighbOr a. she
| PLAYED indifferently with her roast squad:
'Do you enjoy the war articles in Scrib-
| R~er'S'"
He, somewhat surprised. "Why, there
aren't any. That's their strong point; even
the newsboys cry it Oh the street, "'Scri-
bner's no wal articles!"
She, persisting: But they're in for the
longest series of all. They've begun with
C;rsar and all Gaul is divided into three
quarters, and they'll bring it down to the
present time.
Meeting Mr.. Poultney Bigelow, the cdi-
tor of the OUtiHy, the other day, | asked
him if Stevens bicyling tour round the
world continued To he, ~ it has been re-
putcd the greatest drawing card OF that
magazine. well" said he, I'VE nave to
take an idea sometimes from the news
dealers, whether it agrees with our own or
not: and have noticed that the current
number, rs it is spread out for sale, is usu-
ally opened either at the fr0ntirpiece or Mt
the pictures in the sparring articles from
instantaneous photographs Of Billy Ed
munds and Asthur Chambers standing up
To each other" Such is life, such the
popularity of the noble" art and such
the taste of a not small proportion of the
reading public.
at surprises me-" said u Oma who
has known much OF the ms and outs of
literary life in New York, from the writer's
side as well rs the readers for y quarter of
Ig,t ,,r,r;,ao ma IN COZ what a
success women are achieving in IA line in
which they were hardly expected to makea
mark at all; they are all among the best
Judges of manuscript in the city. Ask the
head of any big publishing house, and he is
sure to confirm my opinion. Ten chances
to one he relies himself with implicit con-
tidence on the quick judgment and keen
insight of a woman reader To whom he
turns over the embrOy book or magazine
article for an opinion whether it will take
with the public or no, And the woman Is
seldom mistaken. Her critical faculty or
instinct brings her to the just conclusion
every time"
"LOOk at this" and the bright and shin
ing light of scores of dinner dances and
teas held up before my eyes the society col
umn of a morning paper. Here are SIX
lunches of the week described In glowing
colOrs with the lists OF the women present
and details OF their gowns. Now, attend
ed these every one, and l know that from
the standpoint of really good society not
one of them was to be considered a minute
in comparison with a seventh of which not
n line is said. There is an excellentNrea-
son why. The reporter was not there; and
there is plenty of the brightest and most
thoroughly enjoyable society of New York
which would he utterly broken up and de
stroyed if he were. The people whom the
hostess prides herself on gathering about
her would stay away if they did not believe
themselves secure from seeing their m
in the newspaper e day"
The fancy for yellow in the dress and its
accessories still reigus in full force along
side that other fancy for red i'll its deepest
and most vivid tones; and between them
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